Re: Sensitive little bump around anus
From: Garry Siegel, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:50:23 -0500 (CDT)
How about a hemorrhoid?
Please see a doctor at your conveneince.
Garry
At Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Maggie, wrote:
>
>At Mon, 29 Apr 2002, L. wrote:
>>
>>I have noticed lately that I have a small (about the size of the tip of my
>>little finger at most)sensitive bump just outside my anus. It is rather
>>fleshy and hard, and one can notice it being a darker (almost blue) colour
>>under the think layer of skin covering it. It's not actually painful but it
>>is slightly sensitive to the touch.
>>
>>Does anyone have any idea what this could be? I'm a little embarassed to
>>see a doctor; especially if it turns out to only be a gland or something
>>completely normal.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>--
>>L. Riess
>>
>HI there,
>
>Don't be embarrassed to go to the doc, they see stuff like this all the
>time. Better to go and find it's nothing than to wait and find it's
>something!
>
>--
>Maggie
>
>--
>Maggie Beth Anderson
>Medical Student at University of Washington
>
--
Garry E. Siegel, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.
Roswell, GA
Private Practice
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